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Make room in your class schedule for a little time travel. Aquinas College, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK is offering a class this spring in our favorite Time Lord, Doctor Who. Part of the school’s Adult Education program, the class will run 11 weeks, meeting once a week. The class will cover all 51 years of the program’s illustrious history, from the it’s conception by Sydney Newman and Verity Lambert right up though the present day series, starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, and produced by Steven Moffat. Here’s the class description from the school’s website: Have you ever thought … Continue reading

It was 8 months ago, when the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) brashly made his way into our lives, screaming about his kidneys. It was a brief glimpse of who we are about to properly meet in a week’s time. For many fans, we have become accustomed to this change. For some, it was the first time they’ve said goodbye to “their” Doctor, and now will meet this new man. This new man who saunters in, taking the place of their hero. If you were one of the lucky ones to see Deep Breath already, somewhere along the Doctor Who … Continue reading

IDW has produced some pretty cool Doctor Who comics, not to mention the Doctor Who/Star Trek the Next Generation crossover they are currently putting out (Issue 6 (of 8) will be out this week!), and have recently relaunched the ongoing title with Andy Diggle writing and art by Mark Buckingham. Now they are joining in to the Doctor’s 50th Anniversary (the program debuted on the BBC on November 23, 1963) with a new 12 issue Maxi-series called Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time. Each of the first 11 issues will feature a different Doctor, (beginning with the original, William Hartnell) The … Continue reading

June is the last month of we will have three full cast Doctor Who audios from Big Finish for a bit, as the first season of the 4th Doctor adventures come to an end, and the second season (alongside Mary Tamm, as Romana) doesn’t start until January 2013. Sadly it will be the last time Mary Tamm will appear in a Big Finish production, as the lovely actress passed away this week. Big Finish has already announced a third series of Fourth Doctor Audios, again along side Leela (Louis Jameson) which will be released in late 13/early 2014. I am … Continue reading

I wanted to take a moment to write about Mary Tamm, who passed away this past week. For those of you who don’t know who Mary Tamm was, she was a British actor, most famous for her role as the first Romana (Romanadvoratrelundar), on Doctor Who, during it’s 16th season back in 1978, the “Key to Time” season. When I discovered Doctor Who, back in 1983, it was on NJ public TV, where they air Doctor Who in omnibus features on Saturday Night. The first episode I ever saw was Robots of Death, which of course featured Tom Baker, alongside Louise … Continue reading